Womb as Paradise Lost

Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part 2 – Prolegomena
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fit? Is it a fictitious example is it, or an illustration of the global reality existing
inside the medical domain with superiority of knowledge, represented by the individual
physician or therapist? Adjusts the balance of power as "acting subject"
(physician) versus "treating object" (patient) still in our modern, autonomic western
society? Adjusts this balance of power also in the politics of healthcare within
the cultures of the East with their disparities in capabilities? In my humble opinion
the answer on the two questions has to be negative, and a purpose of fundamental
changements.
The philosophical hermeneutics, implemented in the medical domain via university
faculties e.g. under the guise of hermeneutical psychotherapy and pedagogy
as far as I know first originated and developed at the University of Utrecht in the
Netherlands 186 , the medical subject-object relationship is replaced by a new therapeutical
subject-subject relationship. In the footsteps of these developments, the
care questioning man - medical, therapeutic or paramedics – has got a new position
within the value area, where the expert radiates servitude, a renewed attitude
evolutionarily belonging to human individuals as single entities, living by the
power of a curative altruism 187 with compassion as a core value. 188
Anchored in the immutable conventions the suffering human being in his full
dignity is slipping into a dehumanizing qualification "patient", similar to the
praxis in the therapeutic speaking as "client" or "customer".
186 Prof. Dr. Rob Lubbers is the founder of this educational method of treatment. The Langeveld Institute for the RUU is
continuing this development. Reference to the main work of Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics can not be
neglected.
187 The term curative altruism is shaped by me as a counterpart of mutualist altruism where "I do something for you, then
I can later aks you to do something to me”. The characteristic of human involvement is an attitude without self-profit,
giving care for others! This brings us close to the philosophy of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas with
his philosophy of responsibility, with the Other as the Face of G’d that looks upon us and requires to altruistic curative
care.
188 Ricard, Matthieu, Plaidoyer pour l’altruisme, Paris, 2013